I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
CHRIS CLEAVEI am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
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We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the “lost children” who feature in the novel – those come from my research.
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Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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